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China – Untapped Potential and Promising Chengyu

Seems like lately, everybody wants to do business with the Far East. Whether it’s investing, running a business or just working in China, people are getting involved or talking about getting involved. As this CNN article suggests, despite the major cities like Beijing and Shanghai being completely saturated, there are still many potential and promising markets. Here’s [...]

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The Apple Suppliers’ Scramble Chinese Idiom

When the Iphone5 didn’t take China by storm, investors were disappointed to say the least. Because the stock didn’t grow in late December of 2012, Apple’s stock took a major 10% plunge.  This caused a lot of the major suppliers to scramble for marketshare elsewhere.  There’s a quick and easy way to describe how these [...]

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Idiom for the Deceit in House of Flying Daggers

Besides the totally beautiful nature scenes and awesome martial arts, House of Flying Daggers is actually full of lots of lies and deceit. Who’s the better fox? Xiaomei (Zhang Ziyi) pretending to be the blind daughter of the leader of the Flying Daggers. Or Liu (Andy Lau) working undercover as a police captain when he’s actually part [...]

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Taking Forever Chengyu – 10 Minutes Feeling Like 2 Hours

“Really?! It’s only been 6 minutes?” – We’ve all thought some variation of this when we’re bored and stuck in some place we don’t want to be. Time just seems to stretch on interminably long. How many times will you steal a glance at the clock, phone or watch before you just end up sighing [...]

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50 Essential Chengyu: Chinese Idioms Made Simple Ebook

We’ve taken 50 practical Chinese idioms and put them together in a neat, organized ebook that’s essential for being fluent in Chinese. A lot of the chengyu are found from our blog posts under our “essential chengyu” category. What’s great is that this ebook has 50 of the most used and practical Chinese idioms. I mean, [...]

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RAWR! Life Of Pi Exceeding Expectations Idiom

Life of Pi surprised millions with its success in the box office. Who would have thought that a story about a boy being stuck at sea with a tiger in his life boat would be such a hit?! In China alone, it brought in about $90.8 million! This is only part how much it racked [...]

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6 Snake Phrases for the Year of the Snake

2013 is the year of the Snake (蛇 – shé)!   Contrary to western belief, the snake in Chinese culture doesn’t represent trickery, deceit or evil. Instead, astrologically speaking, the snake is the yin to the dragon’s yang, the PB to the dragon’s J. The snake represents elegance, grace, wisdom and beauty. It is a lucky sign that carries good fortune [...]

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Armstrong & Walmart Might Have Something In Common, Sincerity?

Was Lance Armstrong‘s apology sincere as he talked about his feelings with Oprah about his drug abuse? Is Walmart hiring 100,000 veterans a sincere gesture to help the economy and our country or is it just to have good PR outshine the Mexico bribery and their home practices? Well, regardless of Armstrong , Walmart’s intentions, [...]

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Chengyu For Baidu’s New Image Search Engine

China’s main search engine tool, Baidu, is testing facial recognition image searching. Starting with popular celebrity photos for now, this search engine tool allows you to find people based on the picture you’d paste or upload into the search box! This new service compared to what was available at the start of the Dot Com Boom can [...]

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Chengyu For All You Efficient People

It’s all about efficiency. Today we’ve got our smart phones synced to our life and every application invented to help maximize time. To buy that new camera or that small laptop notebook? Oh! Decisions… Why not kill two birds with one stone and just buy a smartphone? You get BOTH. The chengyu “一箭双雕” is the way [...]

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